Press Release

Four Pharmacy Professionals Receive Award to Advance Leadership and Training in Sterile Compounding

The ASHP Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 ASHP Foundation Compounding Sterile Preparations (CSP) Training Awards, part of the Foundation’s Professional Advancement Scholarship program.

This awards program provides support for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with CSP responsibilities to network with peers and participate in the 2026 ASHP Pharmacy Futures meeting and Designated Persons Sterile Compounding Training in St. Louis, Missouri.

The recipients are:

• Jeremy Brewer, PharmD
  Supervising Pharmacist and Designated Person, Olean General Hospital
  Olean, New York

• Christopher Gemming, CPhT-Adv, CSPT
  Tech Supervisor, Brown Health Cancer Institute, Rhode Island Hospital
  Providence, Rhode Island

• Angela Mercado, PharmD, DPLA
  Infusion Pharmacy Supervisor, Rady Children’s Health
  Orange, California

• Ashley Snow, BS, CPhT-Adv, CSPT, CPTEd
  Division Compounding Compliance Coordinator, HCA MidAmerica Division Pharmacy – HealthTrust
  Kansas City, Missouri

The sterile compounding training is a 1 ½ day immersive program to train and assess the competency of individuals assigned by an organization to be responsible and accountable for sterile compounding operations.

ASHP Foundation CSP Training Awards are supported by donations to the Lawrence A. Trissel Pharmacy Legacy Fund, which supports initiatives that advance pharmacy workforce training in leading research or compounding sterile preparations.